Antic Software publishes the first issue of Amiga Plus Magazine. It was the April/May edition and included an AMIGA Plus disk, which included the graphic programs created. Articles included everything from creating graphics, to your 1988 Federal Income Tax, Lattice C++ review to a Tetris review and more.

Nat Friedland was the Editor and Arnie Cachelin the assistant editor. The Magazine had a short life – closing its doors in 1991.

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On the Menu Today - Cherry bakewell

It's Friday so lets talk about cake. If you don't like cake, leave now. Cherry bakewell. What a cake this is. If you've never had this before, it's very much marzipan based and tastes overwhelmingly of that. I'm a huge marzipan fan so for me this cake is perfect.

I've been eating these things since I was a kid and don't think I'll ever stop. You know when you get a craving for something sweet and for most people it's some form of chocolate? For me it's one of these. I'm not sure my house has ever been without at least one cherry bakewell in stock.

You might see them referred to as Bakewell tarts as well, but there's a difference, for me at least. If someone says cherry bakewell, I'm expecting an entire cake. If someone says Bakewell tart then it's a small tart thing in some foil, like these. Incidentally that link is also the recipe for making them, something I'm yet to do! I mean they're not hard but I feel like I'd be disappointed with my own, given how good the stuff I buy in is. Maybe I should try.

One thing for me though - I don't like cherries. At least not the glacé cherries they use in these. They're very shiny cherries and just aren't nice. I pretty much just bin the cherry when I have one of these, which I'm sure some of you will tell me off for.

I actually have no idea if you have these elsewhere in the world but do let me know!

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If you like Cherry Bakewells, and you like a drink, you need to try the Bakewell Bomb - a shot of amaretto and a bigger glass of cherry Monster. It's amazing, tastes just like a Cherry Bakewell, but in alcoholic liquid format. And who doesn't like that?

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I was an ST guy , remember the rivalry between ST and Amigas? It was a bit a like the Britpop day, Blur or Oasis?

No Scott. No one remembers the "rivalry" because the Amiga clearly shat all over the ST in every way. So confirmed by my Amiga 500, Amiga 600, Amiga 1200, and my crowning jewel the Amiga 4000 (which I still have and it still works, running a clearly superior Workbench 4.1). Stick that in your ST pipe and smoke it pal! ;)

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I was an ST guy , remember the rivalry between ST and Amigas? It was a bit a like the Britpop day, Blur or Oasis?

No Scott. No one remembers the "rivalry" because the Amiga clearly shat all over the ST in every way. So confirmed by my Amiga 500, Amiga 600, Amiga 1200, and my crowning jewel the Amiga 4000 (which I still have and it still works, running a clearly superior Workbench 4.1). Stick that in your ST pipe and smoke it pal! ;)

I see Psychospirobot has that Friday feeling btw....

I am sure the STe wiped the floor with the Amiga and off course it was the computer of choice for music professionals ;-)

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If you don't like cherries why don't you just have a Bakewell Tart rather than a Cherry Bakewell? To me a Bakewell Tart is made in a flan dish - the ones in the picture look like a Mr Kipling's mass produced version.

There's also a Bakewell Pudding that uses Puff instead of Short pastry which as the name suggests is a bit lesss cakey but really nice warm with Custard / Ice Cream / Cream!

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I understand that today's "On this day" is related to tech and this is an IT forum, but I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge that on this day in 44 BC, Julius Caesar was assassinated.

I feel I would be remiss if I did not point out that Julius himself faked the assassination. If you look at the video closely, you can clearly see that it is actually a pigs body under that toga. That, plus the daggers of the day were nowhere near sharp enough to produce such clean cuts. Obviously faked. The body was processed at the butcher's ahead of time. Please subscribe to my Youtube channel to learn more.